Friday 26 September 2014

Friday Link Encyclopedia and Self-Promotion | Clarissa's Blog

Friday Link Encyclopedia and Self-Promotion | Clarissa's Blog:



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"“I may be a middle-aged white man, but I’m not an idiot. . . It seems that, in doing away with patriarchal authority, we have also, perhaps unwittingly, killed off all the grown-ups.” Yes, buddy, you are right, you are not an idiot. You are a total fucking brainless idiot. That’s an important distinction."



I think the main problem is that American society has never been mature, and perhaps neither has Australian society.  I do think British society has a strong core of maturity.  But many societies are simply too young.  And part of the symptoms of immaturity is to constantly produce extremely trite solutions to complex problems, like the solution that original author seems to be proposing above.

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